Classic Jazz: From New Orleans to Harlem

Number of Discs: 100
Label: Membran
Availability: Available
Item #: 8017649

Member Price: $398.00

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New Orleans was the starting point of collective improvisation. The jazz for which the city on the Mississippi delta was to become so famous developed at the beginning of the 20th century — fusing Creole-Afro-American music, Marching Bands and French Quadrilles. With the rise of Swing, New York and Chicago became the new jazz capitals. The most important recordings of classical jazz: New Orleans Jazz, Dixieland, New York and Chicago Jazz, Kansas City, Harlem and Territory Jazz. From 1917 to 1932, to be listened to — and danced to on 100 CDs.

This 100-CD set is included in The Encyclopedia of Jazz (500 CDs)

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Imported from Europe!

New Orleans was the starting point of collective improvisation. The jazz for which the city on the Mississippi delta was to become so famous developed at the beginning of the 20th century — fusing Creole-Afro-American music, Marching Bands and French Quadrilles. With the rise of Swing, New York and Chicago became the new jazz capitals.

The early jazz which was played in honky-tonks or in the streets of New Orleans and later in New York and Chicago is excellently covered in this encyclopedia. The rich musical heritage is connected to many prominent names: King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Condon, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, Jack Teagarden, Eddie Lang, Bud Freeman — the list is much longer.

Highlights of this edition are the complete titles which the mighty cornetist Joe “King” Oliver recorded in Chicago and New York. The young Louis Armstrong is represented on his recordings of the 1920s and 1930s. He can be heard with King Oliver and Fletcher Henderson as well as with his Hot Five, Hot Seven and with the band of Luis Russell.

Several big bands such as the orchestra of Bennie Moten, which was the nucleus of the Count Basie band played an important part in the 20s. Fletcher Henderson led a band with outstanding soloists like Rex Stewart, Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins. Duke Ellington also had an impressive ensemble including trumpeter Bubber Miley who already experimented with his special growl technique.